Miscreant! exclaim’d Pelayo. Might I meet
That renegado, sword to scymitar,
In open field, never did man approach
The altar for the sacrifice in faith
More sure, than I should hew the villain down!
But how should Julian favour his demand?...
Julian, who hath so passionately loved
His child, so dreadfully revenged her wrongs!
Count Julian, she replied, hath none but me,
And it hath, therefore, been his heart’s desire